Some Results Of National Assembly Election Released By INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced
some results of the National Assembly election held on Saturday across
the country the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

In Kebbi, Alhaji Adamu Aliero of the All Progressive Congress (APC)
and former Minister of the FCT, was declared as the winner of Kebbi
Central Senatorial District.

Prof. Yusuf Saidu, the Returning Officer, announced in Birnin Kebbi on
Monday that Aliero, won the election with 216,084 votes while the
People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Alhaji Abubakar Malam,
emerged second with 68,792 votes.

Meanwhile, collation of the Kebbi North and South Senatorial results
as well as that of the eight House of Representatives was still
ongoing as at the time of filing this report. In Kwara, Mr Zakari
Mohammed, the Chairman of the House of Representatives' Committee on
Media and Public Affairs, was the winner of the House of
Representatives' Election into the Baruten/Kaiama Federal Consistency.
Mohammed, a Candidate of the APC, scored 32,505 votes to defeat the
PDP candidate, Mr Abubakar Othman, who polled 12,353 votes.

Declaring the result in Kaiama, the headquarters of Kaiama Local
Government Area of Kwara on Monday, the Returning Officer, Dr Ahmed
Ameen of the University of Ilorin, said the election was peaceful.
"The APC candidate polled 32,505 votes while the PDP candidate polled
12,353 in the election," Ameen said.

In Imo, Sen. Hope Uzodimma, representing Imo West, under the platform
of the PDP was declared the winner with 154, 604 votes to defeat his
closest rival, Sen. Osita Izunaso of the APC, who scored 70, 843
votes.

Mr ThankGod Ezeala of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) got
27, 753 votes to place third. Prof. Chris Eze, the INEC Returning
officer for Imo West announced the result at the INEC state office,
Owerri, on Monday. Chief Athan Achonu of the PDP also won the
senatorial position for Imo North, while Mr Samdaddy Anyanwu of the
PDP won the Imo East senatorial seat. Eze explained that electoral
officials collating results from local government areas within Imo
West decided to relocate from Orlu to Owerri because Gov. Rochas
Okorocha allegedly led an attack on the electoral workers late on
Sunday night.

"Yesterday, we couldn't conclude the collation of results at Orlu
because of an attack by a team led by Imo Governor, His Excellency
Rochas Okorocha. "Because of the attack, resulting in the tearing of
the result sheet by Okorocha and his group, the Resident Electoral
Commissioner directed that we return to INEC headquarters, Owerri,''
he said. Eze said that after the attack, they were able to recover the
rumpled sheet and recalculated the results. "At the time the governor
stormed the collation centre with security men, some local government
returning officers had yet to submit their results.

"The governor did not know that what he tore was not the comprehensive
result, and at the end of his action, we picked the torn sheets and
joined them to reproduce the result'', he said. Eze said that his
major assignment at INEC Owerri office was to declare the result for
Imo West as collated. He added that the exercise went on smoothly, as
there was no report of violence anywhere during the conduct of the
election in the area on March28.

In Kogi, the two senatorial election results so far declared by the
INEC in the state were for Kogi West and Kogi East senatorial
districts. In Kogi West, the Returning Officer, Mr Oloniruha Akintola,
declared Former Rep. Dino Melaye of APC the with 41,120 votes to
defeat incumbent Sen. Smart Adeyemi of the PDP who polled 38,148
votes. In Kogi East, the Returning Officer, Mr Adaji Ameh, declared
the APC candidate, Alhaji Abubakar Abdulrahaman, the winner as he
polled polled 98,915 votes to defeat the incumbent, Sen. Atari Aidoko
of the PDP, who got 88,994 votes.

The Returning Officer for Kogi Central, Mr Musa Adoke, announced that
Sen. Mohammed Ohiare of APC scored 55,776 votes to beat the PDP
candidate candidate, Mr Ahmed Ogembe who polled 42,736 votes. In
Sokoto, Gov. Aliyu Wamakko won the Sokoto Central senatorial zone seat
under the APC with a total of 225,642 votes. The INEC Returning
Officer for Sokoto Central zone, Prof. Abdullateef Femi, who announced
the result, said that Wamakko defeated incumbent Sen. Ahmed Maccido of
PDP who got 65,692 votes.
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